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Author:   Jennifer Hart
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780253023070

ISBN 10:   0253023076
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Auto/Mobile Lives 1. ""All Shall Pass"": Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-1939 2. ""Honest Labor"": Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-1945 3. ""Modern Men"": Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s 4. ""One Man, No Chop"": Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana 5. ""Sweet Not Always"": Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990s Epilogue. ""No Rest for the Trotro Driver"": Ambivalence and Automobility in 21st Century Ghana Notes Bibliography Index"

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Jennifer Hart has an acute ear for listening to stories and noticing important themes in the narratives and archives. Such fascinating material. -Jamie Monson, author of Africa's Freedom Railway Automobile technology was quickly and fluidly remade and redefined to suit local uses--in ways that alter how we think about economy, society, and modernity, as well as modes of African inventiveness: the capacity to divert, adapt, or redesign material goods or objects, how we think about them, their histories, and cultural possibilities. -William Cunningham Bissell, author of Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

Jennifer Hart's text sweeps triumphantly across a century of authomobility in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. . . sophisticated, clear and inspiring account. . . * Journal of Transport History * This well-written book deeply engages with the dynamics of African mobility and constitutes a major contribution to twentieth-century Ghanaian history. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *

Jennifer Hart's text sweeps triumphantly across a century of authomobility in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. . . sophisticated, clear and inspiring account. . . * Journal of Transport History *

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Jennifer Hart is an Assistant Professor of African History at Wayne State University.

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